Silver Coinage

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or coinage:

    “Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
    the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
    cistern.
    Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
    shall return unto God who gave it.
    Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)

    “Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)